[SOLVED] Network Manager applet refuses to work in Gnome Shell

themusicalduck · 2011-07-04 00:17:46

I have just installed Arch on my Thinkpad T510 laptop and installed Gnome 3.

I can connect to the internet through ethernet using dhcpcd eth0 but I haven't figured out how to connect through wireless yet.

I have network manager, and network manager applet installed, but if I run nm-applet in a terminal, it appears to run however, nothing ever appears in either the top bar or notification area (bottom bar) in Gnome Shell.

I tried using wicd too, but had the same problem. It appears to run, but no applet or GUI appears anywhere.

Attempts to connect through the CLI have failed too, but I'd really like to have wicd or nm-applet up and running anyway.

Last edited by themusicalduck (2012-04-15 18:23:26)

lucke · 2011-07-04 01:26:22

Did you start networkmanager with "/etc/rc.d/networkmanager start"? nm-applet isn't really needed for gnome 3, as far as I know. An icon should appear next to the volume control when networkmanager is running.

themusicalduck · 2011-07-04 02:01:39

Almost there. That seems to work. An icon appears and I can now see available wireless networks. When I click to connect to a network though, nothing happens except that there is instantly a notification saying that "The network has been disconnected".

The network is running WPA if that makes a difference. I pretty sure I have installed all the relevant WPA packages (wpa_supplicant or something along those lines? I can't check easily as I can't post from the install itself).

jorel1981 · 2011-07-04 02:11:05

I had the same problem when i've installed Arch on my laptop.. after researching a lot i changed "network" for "networkmanager" in DAEMONS list in my /etc/rc.conf

DAEMONS=(syslog-ng dbus @bluetooth @networkmanager netfs crond @alsa)

Also u need to install network-manager-applet.

Let me know if this works for you...

Last edited by jorel1981 (2011-07-04 02:13:47)

themusicalduck · 2011-07-04 02:41:41

Thanks jorel, now the applet starts on bootup.

I'm having trouble connecting to WPA secured networks though. I disabled WPA on my network to see if I could connect and now it works great. As soon as I enable WPA though, I just get the same problem with it not even attempting to connect.

I have wpa_supplicant and wpa_actiond installed. As well as wpa_supplicant_gui, which doesn't appear to do anything (it looks like this might only work with wicd?)

edit: The wireless card driver should support WPA I hope. It is an Intel card which is supported by the kernel.

Last edited by themusicalduck (2011-07-04 02:47:05)

themusicalduck · 2011-07-04 15:07:59

Well I've managed to get WPA to work. I installed the package netcfg and that seems to have solved it.

I'm still having problems. The internet is very slow. Most websites will not load at all. Weirdly, some sites will load very fast (like Google and this forum) and I can also ping all websites and they will reply just fine. Pacman doesn't work at all giving the error - error: failed retrieving file 'gpm-1.20.6-6-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz' from mirror.lividpenguin.com : No address record. Pinging mirror.lividpenguin.com works fine though.

Does that mean a DNS problem? I can't see why, since while the network is unsecured everything works fine.

I also setup a static IP and tried using the Google DNS servers instead, but I had the same problem.

According to network settings, I'm connected at 65Mb/s.

I also can't access the router through the router gateway address. However, I can ping it and it pings with only 3ms delay.

Last edited by themusicalduck (2011-07-04 15:10:30)

lucke · 2011-07-04 17:56:48

Does "env | grep -i proxy" return anything?

themusicalduck · 2011-07-04 19:13:12

It doesn't return anything.

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#1 2011-07-04 00:17:46

[SOLVED] Network Manager applet refuses to work in Gnome Shell

#2 2011-07-04 01:26:22

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#5 2011-07-04 02:41:41

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